[ARS] The DC-Vault Perpetual Thread (Part 3) - Runaway Target

Ironic how it has been down pretty much since it got voted in to the vault.

What do you mean by down? I've been hitting it to the tune of >10k daily. It might be flaky getting started, but once you get WUs you can sail.

I had teething issues with it when I first started but it was giving plenty of work ... until simap ... I switched everything over to simap and when I came back correlizer was back to its old ways and won't keep my machines fed.

I have turned several machines off but the ones that are on are running both eon2 and correlizer.

Well, looking at the daily stats I see it is running. Like a true stats junkie I have been checking Free-DC 6 times a day and every time I check Correlizer I see no points for anyone, but it must just be a coincidence or the stats may just be updating way late at night. I had several machines on Correlizer, but they stopped grabbing any WUs which added to my assumptions, although they were admittedly running other projects too. I see now that I've slowly started getting some credit on that project again though, so my bad. No worries.

My vote would be DPAD as I consider it the strategicly most important project to WIN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING as a whole.

That said, if your rigs have decent or recent (even better, decent recent!) GPUs then they also score phenomenal amounts of points in a whole host of projects - but the GPU projects are not of any strategic importance in the context of the DC Vault because they don't have big amounts of Vault points available for us to pick up, so I would pick GPU projects based on interest. There's maths, astronomical science, encryption cracking and biological projects out there.

Ironic how it has been down pretty much since it got voted in to the vault.

What do you mean by down? I've been hitting it to the tune of >10k daily. It might be flaky getting started, but once you get WUs you can sail.

I had teething issues with it when I first started but it was giving plenty of work ... until simap ... I switched everything over to simap and when I came back correlizer was back to its old ways and won't keep my machines fed.

I have turned several machines off but the ones that are on are running both eon2 and correlizer.

Well, looking at the daily stats I see it is running. Like a true stats junkie I have been checking Free-DC 6 times a day and every time I check Correlizer I see no points for anyone, but it must just be a coincidence or the stats may just be updating way late at night. I had several machines on Correlizer, but they stopped grabbing any WUs which added to my assumptions, although they were admittedly running other projects too. I see now that I've slowly started getting some credit on that project again though, so my bad. No worries.

Welcome to freedc. There is a 15 minute window between when correlizer updates its stats and when freedc starts a new day making the stats for that project messed.

I ""think"" that the project needs to "trust" your machines to give them work and that only happens when you turn in work creating a vicious cycle. I recall that this sort of thing happened several years ago when HR was turned on in BOINC. Anyway, if you run correlizer and nothing but correlizer then you will get work after it gets over its teething period with you. But if you run it with anything else, you are screwed.

Well, looking at the daily stats I see it is running. Like a true stats junkie I have been checking Free-DC 6 times a day and every time I check Correlizer I see no points for anyone, but it must just be a coincidence or the stats may just be updating way late at night. I had several machines on Correlizer, but they stopped grabbing any WUs which added to my assumptions, although they were admittedly running other projects too. I see now that I've slowly started getting some credit on that project again though, so my bad. No worries.

Yeah, that's the problem. The watched pot never boils. IMO a project isn't mature enough if it only updates it's stats once a day. Correlizer is one of those projects. And IMO it shouldn't have been included in the Vault until it did update it's stats more than once a day.

So the problem isn't you per se, it's the developers who aren't updating their stats often enough. (Or at least on a cycle in sync with Free-DC.)

Yeah, no decent GPU here ATM. That's on the list but the one I have has been sufficient.

DPAD it is, though, for now. I can swap if need be later on but why waste more CPU cycles?

Welcome, Nilt! Something else you could do if you want to for a bit is join our little run in Correlizer. It's a new project so we are squashing all in our path currently.

Thanks. I ran DC for a while and then stopped for reasons I can't recall. I've only got a few systems currently and had to take the i7 laptop off of DC as it was just a bit toasty but I will see about throwing that on there somewhere.

It seems Whizbang hit the gas and is tearing up Correlizer. ARS needs a couple million on it before we can relax. I am going to turn some of my lower efficiency machines off to save the power but will stay on it as long as I can.

Team Ars reached #10 (awesome!) and has a 96 day overtake of #2 (can you say impressive?!!).

Ironic how it has been down pretty much since it got voted in to the vault.

I stand corrected. Most of my machines can not get any work. This stinks cuz I was really hauling!

I know I can't give more than 1 nVidia GPU and 8 threads at 2.4Ghz but are there any places it would be more helpful to task them to than SIMAP, GPUGRID, and DIMES?

GPUGrid is especially valuable vault-wise. To tell the truth I'd say just run the projects that you like snd think are valuable and let it go at that. We're so overpowered by the huge national teams anyway that just having fun with it is the way to go (not that it wasn't before). I suppose it might be fun to have something like a "stampede" (as the DPC guys call it) now and then.

New project up for vote for the vault. We are positioned ok with Beyond making a major push. We would bump DPC out of second for a couple of days if the project were vaulted today and there is plenty of room for improvement in the short term.

New project up for vote for the vault. We are positioned ok with Beyond making a major push. We would bump DPC out of second for a couple of days if the project were vaulted today and there is plenty of room for improvement in the short term.

You're #1 but I'm gaining. Asteroids@home runs nicely since the problem with the aborted WUs not being sent out got fixed. Looked for a vote (poll) but can't find one. I suspect it will be vaulted pretty soon though (why I started running it).

It is not a "poll" per se but a conversation thread that leads to inclusion as I read the rules.

I started playing with it back when it was linux only and it was a mixed bag. Things seem to have improved.

ARS is currently ranked 27 / 190 which would give us about 8500 vault points which isn't a terrible place to start. TN is 10 spots or about 500 points ahead of ARS with only a 100k credit lead. DPC is in 82'd which would cost them second in the vault for the short period of time it takes them to get within 2 ranks of us. They are 250k credit back and half our RAC at the moment so would be the worst hit if it gets in and falls to the vault syndrome.

I posted a little congrats to our long-time rival DPC over in their forum. They offered a couple points of strategy and thanks in return. The alliance probably isn't feasible, but the first one is definitely worth considering.